Example sentences of "then come [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Wales won the Triple Crown in 1988 with a team who had amble development left in them , the future looked bright ; then came a calamitous tour of New Zealand followed by sundry other mishaps and the outlook became as dark as an All Black jersey . |
| 2 | Then came a slight breeze , that grew and went in the space of a few heartbeats . |
| 3 | And then came a great booming from overhead . |
| 4 | Then came a new development . |
| 5 | Then came a new cry , which rather overshadowed my friends ' efforts : ‘ West Mids — Best Kids ! ’ chanted over and over by sixty or more voices . |
| 6 | Then came a narrow lavatory with an old-fashioned bowl of decorated porcelain and a mahogany seat with , above it , a hanging chain set under a single high window . |
| 7 | Then came a larger beetle . |
| 8 | Then came a characteristic note of banter : " who ever believed that General de Gaulle … should content himself with opening flower shows ? " |
| 9 | For a moment , Henry thought she was going to laugh , and then came a sudden explosion of sobbing . |
| 10 | Then came a sudden reversal of fortune : flops ( some , but by no means all , deserved ) in ballet and the theatre ; his father 's death ; a scandal arising from a prosecution for homosexual activity . |
| 11 | Then came the Russian revolution ; late in 1917 , the new Soviet leaders renounced what they considered the czar 's unequal treaties and subsequently the Cossack officers were withdrawn from Iran . |
| 12 | Then came the stabbing incident which forced Monica to cancel so much of her programme for this year but we are now optimistic that she will have fully recovered before our tournament . ’ |
| 13 | Then came the perennial problem — do I put the neckband on next , or the front bands . |
| 14 | Then came the first signs of recovery with the opening of his eyes and a squeeze of his wife 's hand . |
| 15 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |
| 16 | Then came the first Shadow Cabinet meeting . |
| 17 | ‘ And then came the first tragedy . |
| 18 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 19 | Then came the two saviours of modern Aegina , tourists and that prince of nuts , the phistiki , alias the pistachio . |
| 20 | Then came the terrible sense of disbelief and at last the dawning realization that she would never be held in his embrace , breathe in the scent of his cigars or hear his kindly voice ever again . |
| 21 | Then came the terrible accident to the Turkish Airlines DC-10 in the forest of Ermenonville near Paris in which 346 people lost their lives . |
| 22 | Then came the horrifying death of Piers Courage at Zandvoort , when despite many a brave effort , Courage died in his flaming car . |
| 23 | The travellers ' spirit wilted as loser followed loser , then came the final degradation . |
| 24 | Then came the second chorus of ‘ the referee 's a German ’ , only this time it was much louder . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ then came the second tragedy . |
| 26 | And then came the second Fleet Street sensation . |
| 27 | Then came the International Section : an Indian family on the back of a lorry with a stove , the mother cooking real curry that you could smell in the air ; an Irish group , parents with bagpipes and children dressed as leprechauns ; a steel band from Trinidad . |
| 28 | But then came the only error of the afternoon from the impressive Awford , when his mistimed challenge sent Nicol sprawling . |
| 29 | But then came the awful night when the Station Master was waiting for Peter in the station yard . |
| 30 | Then came the everlasting skies of summer where the sun hung like a silver cauldron and sent meteors of sparkle among the ice . |